European Drift Championship Round 4 - Santa Pod

Santa Pod was the venue for Round 4 of the European Drift Championship, where Phil Morrison in the Driftworks 2JZ powered S15 Silvia was definatley smoking things up!

This was the second of 2 rounds that Team Orange from Japan attended with their RWD converted Imprezas. After a strong competition it was Nobushige Kumakubo (on the right of the photo) that came 1st, and his friend and team mate, Katzuhiro Tanaka (left) that placed 2nd
But it was not all plain sailing from Team Orange, when Tanaka spun during the final, then again Kumakubo spun on the previous run, it took 6 runs for Kumakubo to win

Not so much luck for Chris 'Paz' Parry in his S2000 powered AE86, suffering this bad crash during qualifying, but the damage is not as bad as it looks and the car will return

Mark 'Sidewaysbuff' Luney takes the Santa Pod R32 GTS-T out for a few demo runs, and gave me a passenger run in 1 of them, Cheers Buff!!

The next day there was a team comp, Team Orange took a well fought victory, practicing with the other drivers, above and below but even though they are regarded as the best in the world they still faced good opposition



Team Green will be more impressive next time round after making a big improvement

Team Driftworks fielded the only 3 car team

New European 4wd 1/4 mile record

After a year of development and only the cars 4th run Sumo Powers Drag R33 Skyline GTR Fuujin (Japanese god of wind) set a new European record of 8.27 @ 164mph, which is official as a backup time of 8.4 was done,unlike the 8.3 second time set earlier in the year by another car. The time was set at Santa Pod

Onboard video

New European 4wd record holder

Video filmed and edited by Treble2

The GT-Culture / Duke Racing R33 Skyline GTR set a new European 4wd drag record at Santa Pod recently with a time of 8.3 seconds @ 164mph, on its way to winning Round 1 of the HKS Drag Series. Unlike Fuujin (see below) this car was prepared in Japan by Duke Racing and has ran low 8's in Japan before being exported to the UK. It held the previous European record with an 8.8 and now has taken half a second off that time,with more to come

Fuujin Runs

Sumo Powers new Nissan Skyline R33 GTR drag car, called Fuujin had its 1st proper runs at Santa Pod and ran a 8.54, not a bad acheivement



This was the cars 1st proper run and there is still a lot more to come as its development cycle continues to the 7 second barrier....